Corset-stay-tipping machine.



No. 699,599. Patented May 6, I902.

M. D. WATROUS.

CORSET STAY TIPPING MACHINE.

(Application filed Feb. 27, 1902.)

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COR SET-STAY-TIPPING' MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Yatent No. 699,599, dated May 6, 1902. Application filed February 2'7, 1902. Serial No. 95,907. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, .MARTIN D. WATRoUs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ansonia, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented new and useful Improvements in Oorset-Stay-Tipping Machines, of which the following is a specification.

. This invention appertains to machines for attaching tips to steels or stiffeners for corsets or articles of apparel; and it consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of the parts, as will be hereinafter set forth, whereby the steels are automatically fed from a hopper orstack,,the tips placed on one end of the steel and secured by being compressed thereon, after which the same steel with one end tipped is fed in a reverse direction, receives a tip, which is compressed on the other end.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a machine made in accord with my invention for the purpose of automatically attaching tips successively to the opposite ends of a corset-steel or other stays for dress purposes. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the machine shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail view showing the gearing for the rolls and the disk having a cam-groove. Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are detail views of the i carriages which engage the steels and feed them to the rolls.

, In the practical embodiment of my invention I use three-high rolls-that is, three rolls arranged one above the other, the work being done between the top and middle roll, and subsequently between the bottom and the middle roll.

Upon a suitable base 1 are attached uprights 2 2, having bearings for shafts 3, 4, and 5, which carry the compression-rolls and intermeshinggears. The central shaft 4 is extended on one side to receive ardrive wheel or pulley 6, whichturns on the shaft 4 and may be engaged by a sliding clutch operated by a suitable lever, the clutch sliding with the shaft, so that when moved to one side the clutch, shaft, and pulley will be connected. In mesh with the upper gear-wheel, which is on the shaft 5, is a gear-Wheel 7, which is either integral or attached to a disk 8, which has in its face a cam groove or recess 9, in

which travels a roller carried by the end of one of the upper members of a bell-crank lever or rock-shaft,the other depending member 10 being oscillated thereby. 'lhebell-crank or rock-shaft is supported by an arm 11, and the shaft of the disk and gear-wheel is mounted in suitable bearings, which are attached to one of the uprights 2 of the main frame.

A table or platform 12 is suitably supported from the main frame and carries uprights 13, with recesses, which receive the ends of the steels, these uprights, one with the other, constituting a feed-hopper in which the steels to be tipped are placed, and the lower ends of one of the sides of the uprights is positioned so as to be slightly above the top of the table to admit of the steels being passed one at a time out of the hopper, they being pushed therefrom by pushers 14, which are attached to arms carried by a rock-shaft, which is journaled to the table 12. The table is constructed to receive a reciprocating carriage 15, which has on one side pawls 16, said pawls being positioned so as to engage with a part of the carriage which is on the same plane as the top of the table, and to one part 15 of the carriage there is attached a bar 17, the end thereof engaging one of the connected pawls to lift them when the carriageis at the limit of its movement away from the rolls. The carriage has attached thereto a wedge or cam 18, which engages one end of a spring-actuated rod 19, attached to a depending armof the rock-shaft, and when the carriage is moved toward the center of the table the shaft will be rocked to actuate the pushers 14, so that they will move the lower steel out of the hopper and beneath the pawls 16 on the carriage, which will engage the steels as the carriage is drawn to ward the rolls by the arm 21.

The carriage 15 is reciprocated by an arm 21, attached to the member 10 of the bellcrank lever. Therock-shaft alongside of the table, the carriage 15, and the hopper cooperate and are so organized that when the carriage is at the limit of its movement toward the center of the table the pushers 14 project a steel from the hopper beneath the pawls 16 of the carriage, which carriage moves the steels to a point Where they will be engaged by the intake-faces of the compressionrolls. On each side of the rolls, with their lower ends on difierent planes, are hoppers or chutes 22 and 23, in which are placed the tips which are to be secured over the ends of 5 the steels, and beneath the chutes are fixed plates 24. and 25, which are attached to the main frame, said plates extending from the tables to the intake sides of the rolls. On the output side of the top rolls is an inclined way or guide 26, the inclination being from the output side of the rolls downward for the purpose of guiding the steels with tips on one end from the first compression-rolls upon an inclined table 28, above which is mounted a reciprocating carriage 29, the same being connected to the arm by a link 30. The carriage 29 is made up of two parts, the upper part 29,which carries the pawls,being pivoted at its rear end to the lower part, which slides on the table 28, and when the part 29 is raised the steel will be moved by the rolls through the guide and carriage until the untipped end has passed beyond the guide 26, when it will fall upon the table, after which the carriage is moved toward the rolls, the carriage moving the steel beneath the chute 23 to place a tip on the steel, after which the steel and tip are engaged by the lower CODI- pression-rolls, the steels then being deposited beneath the table 12. The pawls 16 and 31, which are pivoted to the carriages, hold the steels until they are engaged by the rolls, which rolls as as they draw the steels carry them beyond the carriages.

The frame is so constructed that it may be readily taken down to have placed on the roll-carrying shafts compression-rolls with flanges and recesses of a width to correspond with the width and thickness of the steels upon which the tips are to be compressed, and the hoppers or chutes are also removable. The carriages will grasp and feed steels of different widths and lengths and ordinarily need not be changed. Upon the frame, opposite the tip-receiving hoppers or chutes, are springs 32, which have laterally-projecting members which extend toward the rolls, and these springs prevent the displacement of the tips from the steels after the tips have been taken from the chutes and before they are compressed on the ends of the steels by the rolls. The lever 33 when moved on its fulcrum will place the drive-pulley 6 in and out of engagement with the shaft 4.

In a machine constructed as shown by the use of three-high rolls I obviate the use of any lateral or friction feed,the feed being positive from a table to another table on a different plane, the tables being approximately opposite the intake-faces of the rolls. The construction shown reduces the number of parts, and consequently the machine can be operated at a higher rate of speed and with less power.

The carriage 15, as shown in Figs. 4. and 5, is made in two parts, which are held in movceased able engagement, and to the part 16 there is attached a stud which passes through one end of the link or arm 21.. This part of the carriage has pivoted thereto connected pawls 16 7c and is provided with inclined apertures, through which pass bolts or screws which en'- gage with the part 15, which is held in sliding engagement with the table. When thecarriage commences its backward stroke, the 7' 5 part 16 moves upward and longitudinally, which raises the pawl. The rod 17 at the same time contacts with the pawl and swings them on their pivots. The pawl and part of the carriage 16 are held raised until the carriage commences its movement toward the rolls, which is after a steel has been placed beneath the pawls, and such movement toward the rolls causes the pawls to grip the steel and clamp the same between the pawls and the projecting part of the carriage below the pawls. The other carriage 29, as shown in Fig, 6, is made up of two parts which are pivotally connected by a bolt 31, which passes through the openings 29, and the upper part of the carriage, whichh s pawls pivoted thereto, is connected to a link 30 by a bolt 38, so that when the carriage is slid on the table 28 the upper part of the carriage will be swung on the bolt which pivotally connects the parts, 9 5 and such upward movement is limited by a. slotted link 34, which is pivoted to the lower.- part of the carriage and engages a stud which projects laterally from the upper part. When the link 30 moves forward, the pawls engage I00 5 the steels, pass them beneath the tip-containing chute and spring 32 moving them forward until the tips are compressedon the steels, after which the carriage hasits top lifted and is moved to a position to receive 1 another steel. As the cam is driven from one of the rolls, the movements of the carriages will always be in proportion to the speed of the rolls.

I claim- 1. In a tipping-machine, the combination with three-high compression-rolls,of means for feeding steels with tips upon the ends be tween two of the rolls, means for placing the steels in line with the other rolls, tipping the 1 I 5 steels and passing such tipped steels between the other rolls, substantially as set forth.

2. In a tipping-machine, the combination with a reciprocating feed device, a chute for tips between the feed device and compression- 1 2o" 4. In a tipping-machine, a chute, means for taking steels successively therefrom, a reciprocating feed which engages the steels, a chute to receive tips which is open in the path 'of the steels the chute being positioned adjacent to the intake-face of the compression-rolls, a second feed to which the steels with tips on one end are fed by the upper compressionrolls, a chute for tips between said feed and the intake-faces of the lower compressionrolls, the compression rolls being three high, substantially as shown and for the purpose set forth.

5. In a corset-stay-tipping machine, the combination with the three-high rolls,staysupports on opposite sides of the rolls on different planes, reciprocating carriages which engage the stays and feed them to the intake sides of the rolls, and chutes for tips opposite the intake-faces of the rolls, substantially as shown.

6. In a tipping-machine, compression-rolls having their intake-faces on different planes, a reciprocating feed for presentingsteels with tips thereon to the intake-faces of a pair of the rolls, means for effecting an engagement of the partially-tipped steel with a second feed which when reciprocated presents the steel to the lower rolls, substantially as shown.

7. In a stay-tipping machine, the combination of a hopper, means for feeding steels therefrom, a two-part carrier between which a steel is clamped, and means for reciprocating the carrier, substantially as shown.

8. The combination in a tip-attaching machine, of a carriage having parts which i are movably connected, a slide upon which one part of the carriage is mounted, means for reciprocating the carriage connected to its upper movable part, substantially as shown, whereby when the carriage is moved in one direction the upper part will be raised, and when moved in an opposite direction the upper part will be lowered.

9. The combination in a tip-attaching machine, of rolls, tip-carriers adjacent to the rolls, reciprocated carriages on each side of the rolls, a hopper for the stays, and means for feeding the stays from the hopper to one of the carriages, substantially as shown.

10. In a tip-attaching machine, a two-part reciprocating carrier, the parts being connected so that as the carrier is moved in one direction the parts will be separated and. when moved in the other direction the partswill be brought together to clamp a steel and feed it into compression-rolls.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing wit= nesses.

MARTIN D. WATROUS. Witnesses:

CHARLES T. ERrcssoN, JOHN M. SAALFRANK. 

